109. Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: How I'm Starting My First Garden in 2026

Speaker A: Welcome to the Go Get Great Podcast, the perfect spot for aspiring entrepreneurs and ambitious small business owners. I'm Brittany, your host, an online marketing strategist and mom of five. Here you'll discover how to start or scale your small business with practical marketing and business strategies that even the busiest entrepreneurs can implement. But we don't just stop at Business Insight because we know that what you do when you're not wearing your entrepreneur hat is just as important to the success of your business. As a fellow mom, I understand the importance of having a space for real talk where we share the relatable, messy moments of balancing motherhood and a business. So let's dive in and start your journey from good to great. 2026 is going to be my, uh, homegrown Do It Yourself in the Kitchen year, and I am bringing you guys along for the ride. So if you've been following me on my personal social media at BritneynMiller, you may have saw me attempt to garden last year because unrealistically optimistic Brittany thought that when we purchased the house in April at the very latest we'd be in the house in July, which obviously didn't happen because we didn't move in until January. But overly optimistic me thought that it's fine. I can still start my plants at my mom's house and then just plant them in my garden when we move, and it'll be great. And I'll now be able to use this 2 acres of property that we have to grow the food that I want to grow to help reduce our ridiculously expensive grocery bill for a very large family. Well, obviously that did not work out as planned, and most of my plants died in the containers I planted them in or didn't grow at all. But what I did learn is a lot about what doesn't work in gardening and that I needed to do some more research. So that is exactly what I spent the winter doing. And although I am slightly more educated, I am not necessarily more experienced. So this is either going to go absolutely swimmingly and it's going to be fun to see, or it's going to be a complete disaster. And what you're going to learn is what not to do. So, because it's just about to be gardening season, I wanted to make sure that I recorded this episode so that if you want to learn to garden with me, you 100% can do that. So the first thing you're going to want to do is, like I said, make sure you're following me on Instagram, because that's Primarily where I'm going to be talking about this and showing how things are going. Um, but I probably will do another one to two episodes on gardening on my podcast later as well. Kind of some updates and then maybe an end of season. This is what actually happened, what worked, what didn't, et cetera. But right now I want to talk about what I've been learning, where I've been learning it from, and what I'm prepping. Uh, uh, so at the time of recording, we're basically in March. And one thing that I really didn't realize last year is that that's actually when you start to garden in like January, February, which absolutely blew my mind, which is how you a hundred percent know that I am a beginner when it comes to gardening. Uh, uh, so what I really recommend, if you're going to look to start gardening, what I think helped me is to, for starters, sit down and just think through what I like to eat, what I buy a lot at the grocery store. Um, and then if you have a little bit of gardening knowledge or experience, think about what's easy to grow, that you've mainly grown, that you've maybe grown before, and that's usually a great starting point for your first year. And because I'm overly optimistic and ridiculously ambitious, that's not 100% what we're going to be doing this year, but we're going to do our darndest to try and have some success with this. Uh, so I want to share what my plan is for my garden, and then we'll talk about a little bit more about the resource that I started with to help me get to this minorly planned stage that we're at. So my goal for our garden in 2026, my first, truthfully speaking, year of gardening, is to grow in ambitious 60% of our food in our garden. And just to give myself a little bit of a margin for error, also knowing that the things I buy at the grocery store are not just vegetables, to decrease our grocery bill by a minimum of 40% for at least the summer and fall months of the year, knowing that obviously I don't have a greenhouse, although I would really love to build one this year. So we'll see what this summer shapes out to be. Um, knowing that our produce is obviously not going to continue to grow in the winter, and we are going to have to continue shopping for groceries and in the fall until we get to the gardening season next year. So grow 60% of the food of our food in the garden and spend 40% less in the summer and the fall. Uh, and just an FYI I mentioned before, but I will be talking about budgeting in another podcast episode. But basically what I want to use that 40% in savings for is to, uh, pay off some of the renovation debts we have and or put money aside for some of the additional renovations that we did not get to accomplish thus far. So I have a canva plan that I have put all of this information in because I am a very weird individual. And when I start learning about something, I go deep down the rabbit hole, guys. Like, real deep. Really far down the rabbit hole. Excuse me. So I learned a lot about gardening because there is amazingly, a large amount to learn about gardening. Thought it was pretty, pretty straightforward. Get seed, plant seed, water seed, sunlight seed, thing grows. Well, that's not really how it happens, or it all happens in that order, but with a lot of variance. And there's a lot of if this, then that things that need to be considered in and around that process. So some of the things that really helped me prepare and get to this now documented plan that I have for this year is following the purposeful. The purposeful you or the purposeful gardener. Let me look that up on Instagram because I want to get it right for you and I'll link it in the show notes. The purposeful you. Her name is Tasha Medive. I think I probably pronounced that wrong. So I followed her on Instagram, uh, for like, all of last year. Learned a lot of really great information for her. She's a Canadian as well. Um, so she has a different zone than I do, which I'll come back to. I'll come back to in a minute. M. Because that was the whole thing. Um, she's a different zone, um, than me, but at least she was Canadian. So you really want to make sure that you're following people and getting inspiration and information from people that are going to have similar growing experiences that you do. Because watching people in the States, because I do follow some people, I do follow some influencer friends who, who garden. And they're in, like, Texas. Well, they're out there in early February planting seeds. And there's no chance that anyone in Canada is planting absolutely anything in any part of Canada in February, unless it's indoors, which is seed starting, which we'll get to in a couple minutes as well. Uh, so anyway, I follow her. She's great. And then she actually just launched a book in January, which I purchased, consumed in like, 24 hours. And it was fabulous and incredibly Informative and I do highly recommend it. If you're looking for like a beginner's guide to gardening, I will also link that in the show notes for you to make it nice and simple. Uh, so that was fantastic. It really wasn't super expensive, but it gave you so much information all in one place. It's going to be a great reference for me. By the end of the season, it's probably going to be brown and covered in dirt for me, having it out in the garden, looking at things, remembering things, et cetera. Uh, so that was definitely one of the really big resources for me. I did do some like, independent Googling for specific things that I didn't feel I understood enough from her book. But there are like really small caveats to that. Like, obviously it's not a super comprehensive guide because you can only talk about so much in so many pages. So there were specific plants that I was interested in growing this year that weren't talked about in the book. So I had to look up some stuff for them. Um, but for the most part, that book was like my one stop shop for information. Above and beyond that, I am taking a little bit of a risk here and I've been asking ChatGPT to help me because I felt very overwhelmed when I started this project last year. And at the time I don't think I was following Tasha. Uh, so the only person that I knew that I could ask, aside from Google, who started pulling information about things in the states, which, which is when I realized that I needed a different resource, was ChatGPT. So I gave it some information about, um, you know, like what my goals were. And then one of the first things that it asked me was what my gardening zone was. Well, friends, let me tell you that I did not know what my gardening zone was because I didn't know that there were gardening zones. So if you are a new gardener, you need to understand that your gardening zone is basically your geographic area that tells you what you can and can't grow in that specific climate and growing season and then what things you may need to do to be able to grow. Some things that you wouldn't typically be able to grow. Just planting stuff outside, which sounds complex now that I've said it out loud, but if you are located anywhere near me. So I'm in southwestern Ontario. We are a zone. Uh, we are a zone 6B, I think, slash 7A. But for the most part I roll with 6B. So within that I was able to look up and see what plants grow really well within a 6B climate zone. Um, which helped me figure out that some of the things I wanted to grow, like pineapple, probably wasn't happening. As much as I love to eat pineapple, that I'm going to have to continue to buy from the grocery store. So that was a really great place to start. So ChatGPT can be a helpful resource for that because asking my gardening friends, I got a couple raised eyebrows. So not everybody knows this. The other thing that you could do is just go to your local gardening store because they're not going to sell things that don't grow well because they would get too many complaints from people. So if you go to a gardening store and you see tomato plants and tomato seeds and like things like that for starters, tomatoes are probably one of the easier plants to grow. Definitely recommend those. Um, if it's at your local gardening store, it's probably safe to grow it. So that's another really great kind of mental check. But if you're ordering seeds online, which you definitely can do, you want to have an awareness that not everything that's going to be available online may be realistically growable in your zone. So that's kind of the really big first step. Um, so once you kind of figured that out, then like I said, I sat down and I thought through what I like to eat, what I thought would maybe be easy to grow. And I did ask ChatGPT a little bit about this, but I also had some frame of reference from talking to other friends who garden. And then I started to make a plan about what it was that I wanted to grow. And based on the level of difficulty of growing set items, I, uh, then categorized it based on whether or not I would need to buy seeds or whether or not they need to go out and buy starters, which are basically semi grown plants to make the gardening process easier. So if you're a new gardener and you have a little bit of budget for this, it's easier to start gardening with starters. So those are going to be like the little mini plants that you go to the gardening centers and they come in the little pots and you buy those and you just bring them home and you plant them. They're already pre grown to some degree. Uh, so it's a lot easier to get started. I, on the other hand, do not have a very large budget for gardening this year, which is another reason why I want to decrease some of our expenses. So then I can then put some of that money aside to help me grow my garden again next year. Um, because There are certain things that I was like, realistically probably not going to be able to tackle that this year, but would love to do it next year. So things like that, more berry bushes, maybe getting some apple trees. That would be sweet. So I'd love to put some money aside so that I can do some of those things next year. So we're forward thinking here. This is a long term game plan, guys, because growing a garden is not a crock pot meal. It's not ready in six hours. Uh, so from there I made a list of what I needed, seeds, what I needed, starters. And then I had an added layer of needing to go through the seed inventory that I had purchased last year that were either leftovers or never got planted in the first place so that I knew what I needed to go out and purchase and what I already had on hand. So I actually did a lot of that in, um, January, which has been helpful. And seeds start appearing in stores late January, early February. So I was able to grab some of those things, uh, then. So I do have probably 94,5% of the seeds that I need to get. I've got a couple more than I need to order still. And starters typically aren't available yet. They might be starting to come out about this time this episode airs. So if you're. Excuse me, if you're listening to it, know that you might want to start going out to get some of those things because when I tried to go get like raspberry bushes in May or June of last year, they were already sold out, like done and gone from the garden centers. And one thing that I learned, you can't actually grow berry bushes from seeds. You have to get starter plants for them. So I wasn't really able to get any of those last year, which ended up being okay because they died. Um, I did actually end up buying some raspberry starters later in the year from someone who was just selling them off marketplace because basically for berry bushes, what starters are, are like offshoots or seeds that have fallen off the bushes and grown separate plants that you can then like dig out and either move to somewhere else in your garden or throw away or give to someone else. Um, so I scored big time on that and I picked up some raspberry plants which we raspberry bushes that we did get to plant last year. Amazingly, that was like the only project we accomplished in the garden. Um, and I'm just hoping that they survive the winter because I didn't do anything to protect them like I had intended. So anyway, so back to January, uh, sorting and organizing existing seed, made list of what I needed, did some initial purchasing of some of the seeds that I wanted, February rolls around and um, similar kind of carryover from January because I did it like late January, early February. And then I started kind of looking into when some of the starters that I was gonna want come out. And that was how I know that by the time this episode airs is going to be soon. Because my research kind of indicated like mid to late March. So I've got my eye and my mental note on that. Then I need to work on some of that. So my plan for March will be to. I, um, actually already did this, but I was going to say finalize my garden layout. So we'll come back to that in a minute. Uh, that's when I'm going to be building the boxes, making sure that the boxes are filled and prepped and ready to go so that we can start planting on time. Because that was my biggest issue last year. And then in March, slash end of, yeah, early March, we're going to be starting some indoor seed planting. So they, they called that, um, well, I think they just call it seed starting. Actually direct sowing is when you just take a seed and you put it directly into the garden bed you're going to grow it in. Seed starting is when you start it indoors and then you harden it off, AKA you get it used to the elements outside slowly and then you plant it into the garden after. So because Zone 6B is not like a Texas heat sort of situation, it's not hot weather all the time. There are certain plants that have to get started inside and then moved outside. So they actually grow in time before the frost hits again in like October, November. So this is why knowing your growing zone really makes sense, especially for some of those longer term things that you might want to grow, like pumpkins. I thought, why not, let's try some pumpkins this year. Um, so that's kind of my plan for March and then making sure that I'm actually buying the starter plants that I need and uh, I'll keep some of those inside because I really shouldn't plant things until sometime in April or May when the weather gets warmer. So that's kind of like my prep work plan. So then also in the prep phase, what's really important, once you figure out, and this is where ChatGPT was really helpful for me because I have no frame of reference of how much a plant can produce and then how much that would feed a family, especially a Family of this size. So I kind of dumped the information of, okay, this is what I'd like to grow. My goal is to grow 60% of this food in my garden. Like, how many plants am I looking at here? How many seed packs do I need to buy? Um, and then ChatGPT kind of gave me a rundown of what that would look like quantities, and I'm like, okay, well, based on these quantities, how many garden beds do I need? Or, like, how do I grow this efficiently? Which then brings me to, um, my garden design. So, actually, before I talk about my garden design, I want to share some of the plants that I'm hoping to grow in my garden this year. This is actually a pretty hefty list, so I won't read everything. Um, but I really want to grow some supposedly easy plants, like tomatoes. So those I actually have done at my old house. And when it worked, it worked like gangbusters. And I had more tomatoes than I knew what to do with, which is odd, given how much my kids like tomatoes. But then by the end of the season, like, when you're just, like, picking stuff before the frost gets there, you're like, cool. I have a lot of tomatoes, but tomatoes are supposedly pretty easy. I have grown peppers with some success before, so I'm gonna do those. I heard peas are really easy. Um, and beans. So we're gonna try some of those this year. Um, uh, carrots I tried last year didn't get them planted early enough. Slash. I don't think I watered them enough, so they didn't end up growing properly. We were actually out there in the garden checking on them today, and they're vaguely resembling carrot shape now, like, six months after I planted them. So we definitely messed something up in and around that. So I'm gonna try those again next year too. Um, what else is on here? We're gonna try and grow some herbs, and then I want to try, uh, berry bushes. We've got raspberries. I've got two blueberry bushes. I have a rhubarb plant if it survived the winter. My watermelon plants kind of did well in the pots last year, so I'm optimistic that in actual proper growing conditions this year, I'll have more success with those. And also with the squashes slash pumpkins that I planted because they were growing really well. And then I didn't realize you weren't supposed to water them every day like other plants, and I waterlogged them and killed them. So I know better now. So it was still a Learning experience. I know better now. I'm gonna plant some of those this year. Uh, cucumbers I've heard are pretty easy. And things like radishes. Not that we eat a lot, but I figured, why not? I'll try some. Um, broccoli and brussels sprouts and cauliflower are, like, my top three that I'm a little concerned about, but I'm gonna try anyway. Um, so if you're curious of what all I'm planting, send me a message, and I'm happy to share. I can share my whole canva guide with you if you want, if you're in my zone. Um, but those are some of the things, some of the top things that I are my primary focus because I know that overly ambitious me who made this plan may not actually be able to action it when time comes around. So there are a lot of things on here that if I don't get around to doing, I'm not going to be upset about. I don't get to plant Swiss chard. Okay, I'll live. Same goes for, like, spinaches, spinach or rutabagas or turnips. They're not things that we eat a lot, but they're herd. They're things that I heard are relatively easy to grow, and they're. Some of them, um, especially like the root vegetables and some of the brassica, which is a categorization term for some food, like kale, cabbage, broccoli, um, et cetera, are easier to store than others. Also want to try and grow potatoes because we have a very cold pantry that I think will store them very well. Uh, so if we could, like, cut out buying, like, potatoes and sweet potatoes this year, I think that would be chef's kiss. They have a separate growing process. They may or may not talk about that. Um, so those are some of the things that I'm growing. So then, like I said, I went to chatgpt and I'm like, okay, well, now I need to know what my garden needs to look like to plant all this stuff so that I can actually do it. Because there's, like, spacing rules and requirements that I didn't know about until I started buying seed packages. And I'm like, uh, it's. It was like, you know, in those movies where they're doing, like, the major, like, math calculations in their head, and they're like big brainiacs, and you see, like, all the scientific numbers on the screen. That's what my head head felt like trying to organize this. And I'm like, okay, Brittany, gardening cannot be this complicated. Lots of people do this. We need to make this easier. And since aside from trialing and erroring it, most people recommend just starting with like two or three. And I'm like, nobody got time for two or three when you're feeding seven people. I need like 50 different things. We, um, need some support with this. So Chat GPT helped me figure out like, what my. And using some of the information in the Purposeful Gardener, I was able to feed ChatGPT relevant, good information and then have it give me a bed plan. Um, so based on that, there's going to be 12 beds in my garden and each of the beds are going to be 4ft by 8ft, um, various depths, depending on what it is that I'm growing. I'm also going to attempt. And we say attempt because I got to find room in my budget to buy the materials for this. Four different arches to grow food on. Uh, which seems overly ambitious, but doesn't look complicated. So this is either gonna go really well or be an absolute flop, but either way I'm here for it, uh, to grow different foods. So some of my arch foods are gonna be like my squashes, pumpkins. I've seen beautiful pumpkin arches from Tasha and I'm like, I wanna be able to do fall photos at our house. How awesome would that be? Cucumbers, uh, and beans and things like that tend to grow really well on arches and or trellises as well. So I'm going to attempt to do four arches, 12 beds, and then I'm going to have a few dedicated areas with uh, for like a pea wall, like a pea and bean wall. Potentially grow some cucumbers on there too. And then I have a dedicated area for my raspberries because they're already planted so they're staying where they are. I'm not moving them. So in total, supposedly my garden is supposed to be about 48ft wide by 31ft long. And keep in mind I have the luxury of having a two acre property. So that's like basically endless space to do whatever I want with. So I can have a big garden if we can find the time and then the money to build the boxes and then get the dirt to fill them all. So there's, there's some margin for this not happening. But at this point I'm hopefully optimistic. And like I said, I know what I can take out of these plans. If we don't have the time or the money to actually build this much stuff, because we have three Boxes, only one of which is actually in the correct location right now. So we have 11 boxes that either need to be built or moved. Four arches that we need to build, and then two different sizes, uh, boxes for the peas and the beans. So that's a total of 13 garden boxes that we need to create, locate in the garden, and then fill with soil. So that's a lot of work for Grayson, because at this point in time, I should have shared our lovely news that we are expecting again, and it's twins. So Brittany is not going to be doing the manual labor here, because that's not going to be good on my body. Um, so Grayson's. Grayson's got a lot of work to do. So not only is he responsible now for the renovations, but he's also responsible for helping me get my garden started. Poor guy. I feel bad for him. Um, yeah. So that helped me figure out my garden design, and then from there, I was able to, once we determined how many beds we needed, then organize what was going to go in each of the beds. So there's this thing called companion planting, which I knew absolutely nothing about, and it was really interesting to learn about. But basically, the concept is that some plants grow really well together and some plants do not. Crazy concept. It's like how some kids get along and other kids don't. Same goes for gardening. So being able to put plants together in beds that are going to help each other grow well, repel pests, all of those great things is a level of gardening that I did not know existed, and now I know about it, and I attempted to build it into my plan, and I'm hoping that it really works in that chatgpt, in combination with the information I got from Tasha's book, gave me the right information to build this one. So, again, hopefully optimistic here. Um, but it also told me what shouldn't go together. So at least I know for certain that there are some bad combinations out there that I want to try and avoid. Um, so then we were layering companion planting into the garden plan, and some of that also includes flowers, because flowers are really great pollinators, which helps your fruit and vegetables grow, and some of them do deter pests as well as, uh, so there. Honestly, honestly, this was a much more complicated process to go through. And now, after having gone through it, I fully understand why. They're like, start with two or three plans and then go from there. But again, like I said, it's me. So that's just. That's just not happening. It's all or nothing with me. Bad mentality. I know. Please don't emulate it. Um, yeah. So we have a garden plan. Grayson and I were out there earlier today. If you saw my stories, Grayson's been trying to organize the backyard so the kids can play in it. That's truthfully primarily goal number one for why he was out there. But while he was sorting and organizing the wood, he was, like, preemptively cutting some of it in preparation for building these now 13 garden boxes that he needs to create for me so that when, um, we actually go to put them together, he's just pulling the wood out of the pile and the nails are out of it, and they're all straight and they're not broken pieces and all of those wonderful things. Because we're definitely not going out to buy wood for 13 different garden boxes. We're repurposing the barn boards that we took out of our house, which is why our yard has looked like a garbage dump for the last six months. Because we didn't have time to do it in the fall. We were still knee deep in the renovation process, so it just sat outside all winter. And now we're like, okay, now we need to deal with this in preparation for the kids being outside and gardening season. Um, so now that we kind of have an outside plan sorted out, we were then going to start, um, seed starting, like, indoor sewing seeds. So there are certain seeds that I am starting. So once I knew what I was planting and what boxes they were going in, I also had Chat GPT help me create a master planting calendar based on our last frost date. So, again, that's impacted by your garden zone. If you know your garden zone, you can ask Chad. Um, so our last frost date supposedly is May 15th in Zone 6B. So based on that information, I need to be indoor seeds starting, like I said, end of February, beginning of March. And some of the things that I'm starting inside are broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, uh, brussels sprout, and celery seeds. Because I'm going to try and grow things from seeds because they're cheaper than buying starters. And if my seeds don't take, then by the time the starters come out in, like, March slash April, because not all starters come out at the same time, I don't think. Um, then I will go out and buy the starters if I really need to, But I want to at least try. I want to try to grow them from seed first. And there's a few things that I've learned about planting seeds Indoors, because, uh, when I planted last year, I didn't even plant them indoors. I just left them on my mom's front porch. I did cover them with a cover, hoping that that would work. But then I think that created other issues and we're not going to go there. Um, so things I learned about starting seeds inside, know roughly how big they're going to get before they get planted outdoors and then put them in pots of those size right away. It's going to take up more space. Rather than using like the seed starting trays, which I purchased at a yard sale last year, thinking that this, that was fabulous. Um, it'll take up more room indoors initially, but then you're not putting them in seed starting trays and then moving them to bigger pots and then potentially moving them to bigger pots again and then putting them in the garden. So it'll save you some work. I've also heard that you're supposed to use a mixture of potting soil and seed starting soil, which I've never purchased. Cause I didn't do that last year. So I gotta go find the supplies for that. Um, um, and then get it wet. Because when soil gets wet, it like shrinks. Compacts. That's a better word for it, it compacts. So then what can happen is that the seed that you planted moves and seeds need to be planted at specific heights so that they grow accordingly. And I think that's why some of my seeds didn't rise last year, because I just put the dried dirt in, I put the seeds in according to the depth it was supposed to be at and then I watered it and then the seed moved and then the seed didn't grow. So this year we're going to try and do that. Wet the soil first before planting and see if that helps increase our success rate. Um, and then hopefully not buy as many starters. So those are some of the things that I'm learning and I'm going to try. Uh, those are some of the ones that I'm supposed to be starting like this weekend. Won't be starting them this weekend because I haven't bought supplies for it. And then some things that I'm supposed to be starting, um, early March are like tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, because they need a lot of warmth and light. I can also start some of the flowers inside. I'm a little iffy on if I want to do that because my focus right now is food. And I think plants, like pre grown plants, plant starters, flower starters would be less expensive than vegetable starters. So I'M kind of guessing a little bit on that one, but that's kind of the plan. And then late March, we're going to be starting to direct. So if we can, late March, early April, putting things in, like carrots, parsnips, beets, radishes, um, lettuce and spinach in some of the boxes. Those are gonna get direct sewed. So that's kind of like my plan for the next four weeks, which, at the time that I did it, it was like, totally manageable. Now I'm like, oh, man, that feels like a lot to have to have our garden beds ready in like four weeks, knowing that one of those weeks is March break and the kids will be home and then Grayson's going back to work. Yowzers, guys. We got a lot of factors working against us, but we're trying, we're trying. Um, and then, you know, I've got April, May, June, July, August, September sort of thing. I got it all planned out so that I know when the rest of the seeds need to get planted. And there's actually things called crop rotation. And I don't want to talk about that too much because that's when my head started to hurt. And we're kind of relying on ChatGPT for that one because my brain just couldn't. It couldn't comprehend that much, having not gone through the process. Um, but seeds obviously take a designated amount of time to grow. So if we're starting some inside so that we have an early harvest, then you can again, succession plant, throwing some big words at you, but basically harvest the first set of stuff and then plant a second set of stuff so that you can either harvest more of the same thing later so you're not getting everything all at once and then having food go bad because you're not eating it all. Um, or plant different things so that you can grow a bigger variety in a smaller amount of space. So let's for example, say, and this is probably going to be a bad example because I'm going to pick something at random that might not actually be succession plant. Uh, actually lettuce. Lettuce is a good example. So I'm going to plant some lettuce in the early spring. It'll get harvested a little bit later. Then I'll plant more lettuce and then harvest lettuce a little bit later and then repeat the process. I think there's supposed to be three phases. So like a. Basically like a spring, summer, and a fall for lettuce, at least specifically because it grows A lot faster. So I'm going to do that so that we have fresh lettuce for as long as we can have fresh lettuce. Um, yes. So I have all that planned out in my little calendar. So basically it should be a case of looking at, okay, well, you know, it's March now. This is what I need to do in, like, the first two weeks and then come back to the plan. This is what I need to do in the next two weeks. Now, what I haven't planned out is how to know when to harvest all this stuff. Because, like I said, by this point, my brain was a little bit at capacity. And I'm like, you know what? One project at a time. We're not harvesting anything if we don't get it planted. So let's focus on that, and then we'll focus on learning how to harvest some of this stuff. Uh, so maybe that will be an update episode later. But right now, this is the goal. This is the steps that I took to get to this for phase. And now, like I said, we're just working on actioning it. So we're going to be building garden boxes. We're going out and buying our seed starters. We're planting our indoor stuff, um, hopefully soon. And then we're going to try our best and see what works. And, uh, like I said, I'll be sharing all of it on Instagram. I've already been talking about it a little bit, so you can follow along and just see what it looks like. You can go out and get some stuff and do it with me and see how it goes. Um, and whatever your option is, whether you're just watching for fun or whether you're. You're joining me in this planting process, send me a message, let me know. I love talking to people on social media. I think some people think that I just post for the sake of posting. It's like, guys, I'm here to have conversations. Let's support each other. Let's know that we're not alone in this process. That's the whole point of me creating these podcast episodes for you guys. Usually I like to talk about it from an. I've been there, I've done that. This is my advice for anyone wanting to do it. But. But now I'm like, uh, no, no, there needs to be conversations out there about people in the, like, beginning the learning phase and then the messy middle phase, because that's what I want to know. I want to know that other people have tried this and then, you know, they. I uh, don't want to say this is what they've learned because that's, you know, being at the end of it. But I want to hear people talk about their process and what their thought process was and then share how it goes and what adjustments they're making along the way. And just, like, I want to see the behind the scenes of it. So, like, that's what this episode is supposed to be. So I'm going to try and wrap it up because I think this has been a little bit longer than I realized already. But, you guys, I have been working on this for quite a bit, and I don't want to overwhelm you if you haven't done it. Like I said, you definitely don't need to be as comprehensive as I have been. I just am, um, overly ambitious and I'm trying a lot of things, and we're going to see how it goes. It's probably going to be a disaster. Which will be more funny for you. Um, um. But who knows? Sometimes the most unrealistic, unlikely things are the ones that work out the best. Uh, uh. So that's where I'm at with this. Like I said, follow along. Thank you so much for listening. I'll be back again next week, probably with a business episode, because I'm trying to alternate. Because as much as I'm really focused on life right now, uh, my business is still there, and I still want to support the business owners that I've been supporting this long. So stay tuned for that. But I'm hoping my next personal episode, which will probably be two weeks from today, is going to be about budgeting and what we do and don't spend money on, because that was a hot topic you guys wanted to hear more about. And the only reason I haven't recorded it is because I need to spend some time sitting down and reviewing our budget and make sure all of our information is accurate before I go spouting off numbers that I'm not confident in. Uh, and numbers and I. We're just. We're not the greatest friends. We're not. Numbers make me want to go to sleep. Uh, so I've been procrastinating on that, but I know it's an important topic, and it's something that I'm really passionate about bringing to light because I think that there's just so much financial stuff that's not talked about and so many assumptions that are made that are not accurate for people's financial situations. And I want people to know that that's just, you know we're all kind of in it, especially if you're in and around the same age as I am, um, or you've got young kids. So we'll be back with that conversation in two weeks. Thank you guys so much for listening. And if you're gardening this year, happy gardening. Wish me luck. Thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode of Go Get Great. I hope that you found some inspiration and practical tips to help you take your life and business from good to great. If you enjoyed today's episode, please make sure to leave a review and subscribe so you never miss an episode. 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